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We’re opening a new cinema in the heart of Surfers Paradise! The 12 screen cinema complex is set to open as a part of the X Galaxy Centre redevelopment in late-2019. After the closure of the Hoyts complex in 1995, our new location, situated on the corner of Surfers Paradise Boulevard and Elkhorn Avenue, represents […]

CAPI Outdoor Cinema @ Westgarth will be lighting up the night sky from Saturday, December 2. The outdoor cinema will be located at the rear of the art-deco icon Palace Westgarth, adjacent to the historical exterior of the building. Our 30 seat cinema with high-definition headphones features murals and up-cycled furniture created by cinema staff […]

West-side dwellers, we’re coming for you! We’re delighted to announce the development of a new twelve-screen Palace Cinema on Puckle Street in Moonee Ponds, which will include three platinum screens and an outdoor cinema space. The cinema will be part of a stylish retail, hospitality, accommodation and leisure development by Giancorp Property Group right in […]

We’re thrilled to announce that a new bar and café called Overlook has opened adjacent to the Astor Theatre. Inhabiting a space vacated recently by a launderette, Overlook takes its name from the iconic Overlook hotel featured in Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The Shining. Visually brought to life in the 1980 film adaption by master […]

We are thrilled to announce that we will be opening a new cinema, Palace Central, in the multi-award winning development, Central Park Mall, in Sydney’s Chippendale. The new 14 screen complex on Level 3 of the centre will open in late 2017 and will also uphold the building’s ‘green’ ethos, utilising technology which will use […]

In late August 1966, The Beatles scurried off the stage at Candlestick Park, San Francisco at the end of their American Tour knowing that this would be their last live concert before a paying audience. They’d prepared by taking cameras on stage to record the event from their perspective and had an assistant record their 27 minutes set. On the flight back to London, lead guitarist George Harrison was overhead to say – “Well, that’s it – I’m no longer a Beatle.”

Fifty years on the love for The Beatles hasn’t diminished. Remastered and reissued albums fly off the shelves, boxed-sets are highly prized, and restored film and video is being drip-fed to an eager audience. ‘Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years’ and its companion CD/vinyl is set to fan the flames further.

So what is the enduring fascination with The Beatles? In the 60s they were fresh, irreverent, and played their hearts out with the driving and melodic music they wrote. Their hair was long (-ish), their suits snappy, their mouths sharp, and by the end of the decade, they had something important to say about the state of the world. We grew up with them, loved them, and we believed in them. And new generations of music-lovers still embrace them wholly.

The Beatles were not afraid to prod the ‘establishment’ – even telling an audience in the cheap seats to clap, and the rest – ‘just rattle your jewellery.’ They stood up against racial segregation during their American Tours, told the press that they were becoming more well known to fans than Jesus Christ (not John’s finest moment), implored world leaders and armies to stay in bed and asserted that all you need is love. They did it on the biggest of stages, throughout the most magnificent eras of music, and to their adoring fans, and their messages still resonate today.